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storky111

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What is meant by diversifying an investment portfolio? What are the advantages of diversification?
 
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If the economy were truly made of industries that fit the textbook definition of perfect competition what do you expect would be a major disadvantage of this from the consumer's perspective?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 29, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Diversification means that investors spread their investment across more than one asset. Diversification allows investors to reduce risk as individual assets are hit by different economic shocks. Putting a little bit of money in all of these different investment baskets reduces exposure to any single shock.
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One of the assumptions of perfect competition is that the products are all homogeneous. This would clearly reduce product variety across industries and eliminate consumer choice.


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